Julius Rosenberg enters City College of New York; attracted to vibrant radical politics movement.

1934

1 December, Sergei Kirov, popular Communist leader of Leningrad murdered. Stalin suspected of organizing murder which sets off Great Purges and Great Terror (hence the expression "the great 1937 terror began 1 December, 1934)

1935

Lona Cohen joins U.S. Communist Party; Morris Cohen joins Communist party works as party organizer in the Bronx

4-11 February, "Big Three" Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta set up occupation zones in Germany, agree to include non-Communists in governments of Poland and Yugoslavia. Discuss post-war spheres of influence.

6 November, First Public Mention of Soviet Atomic Program in Bolshevik Revolution Anniversary Speech by Stalin's lieutenant V. Molotov, "...we will achieve prosperity in our country. We will have atomic energy too, and much else!"

28 March, Pravda denounces abuses of power by Stalin during his latter years.

1956

30 June, Lenin's Last Testament (1924) published for first time.

1956

Melbourne XVI Olympic Games

1956

23 October, Hungarians demonstrate against Soviet troops in their country and puppet Soviet Hungarian government. Start of Hungarian revolt. Radio Free Europe encourages uprising. Soviets eventually send in tanks and troops in November.

1957?

Cohens settle in North London suburb as Australian couple Peter and Helen Kroger.

26 September, Pravda explains ideological reasons for Czech invasion, "world socialism is indivisible, and its defense is the common cause of all Communists." Kremlin will not allow communism, as it defines it, to be rolled back. "Brezhnev Doctrine."